Report of AAPM Task Group 155: megavoltage photon beam dosimetry in small fields and non‐equilibrium conditions

IJ Das, P Francescon, JM Moran, A Ahnesjö… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐field dosimetry used in advance treatment technologies poses challenges due to loss
of lateral charged particle equilibrium (LCPE), occlusion of the primary photon source, and …

A novel method for the determination of field output factors and output correction factors for small static fields for six diodes and a microdiamond detector in …

B Casar, E Gershkevitsh, I Mendez, S Jurković… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The goal of this work is to provide a large and consistent set of data for detector‐
specific output correction factors,, for small static fields for seven solid‐state detectors and to …

Is the PTW 60019 microDiamond a suitable candidate for small field reference dosimetry?

V De Coste, P Francescon, M Marinelli… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A systematic study of the PTW microDiamond (MD) output factors (OF) is reported, aimed at
clarifying its response in small fields and investigating its suitability for small field reference …

Grid/lattice therapy: consideration of small field dosimetry

IJ Das, AU Khan, SK Dogan… - British Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Small-field dosimetry used in special procedures such as gamma knife, Cyberknife,
Tomotherapy, IMRT, and VMAT has been in evolution after several radiation incidences with …

[HTML][HTML] Radioluminescence-based fibre optic dosimeters in radiotherapy: a review

I Veronese, CE Andersen, E Li, L Madden… - Radiation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Since their conception in the early 1990s, radioluminescence-based fibre-optic dosimeters
(FODs) have attracted great interest for dosimetric applications in radiotherapy (RT). Over …

Output correction factors for small static fields in megavoltage photon beams for seven ionization chambers in two orientations—perpendicular and parallel

B Casar, E Gershkevitsh, I Mendez, S Jurković… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The goal of the present work was to provide a large set of detector‐specific output
correction factors for seven small volume ionization chambers on two linear accelerators in …

Real-time dosimetry with Yb-doped silica optical fibres

I Veronese, N Chiodini, S Cialdi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the years, many efforts have been made to develop radiation detectors to handle the
complex issues of small field dosimetry and achieve the increasing accuracy, precision and …

Validity of equivalent square field concept in small field dosimetry

IJ Das, SK Dogan, M Gopalakrishnan, GX Ding… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The equivalent square (ES) concept has been used for traditional radiation fields
defined by the machine collimating system. For small fields, the concept Sclin was …

Field output correction factors using a fully characterized plastic scintillation detector

L Gingras, YC Espinosa, F Beaulieu, M Besnier… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
As small radiation fields play an ever-increasing role in radiation therapy, accurate
dosimetry of these fields becomes critical to ensure high quality dose calculation and …

evaluation of plastic scintillator detector for small field stereotactic patient‐specific quality assurance

Y Qin, SJ Gardner, J Kim, Y Huang, N Wen… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To evaluate the performance of a commercial plastic scintillator detector (PSD) for
small‐field stereotactic patient‐specific quality assurance (QA) measurements using …